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Duffey Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$534k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$302k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$1.3MHuman Services$760kHealth$637kFood & Nutrition$120kEducation$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+1 grant · $302k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NPH USA$302,000
ANGELS PLACE$150,000
DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
THE IZZO LEGACY$15,000
MANNA FOOD PROJECT$11,500
MICHAEL SADLER FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ANGELS PLACE: $300k → 8%MARKLUND: $100k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $150k → 8%MARKLUND: $100k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $150k → 8%MARKLUND: $100k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $100k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $50k → 8%ANGELS PLACE: $8k → 8%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $6k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 10 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$2.9M
$16k

Still filing today

90%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesInternationalFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
    5× · 2019–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +10%
  • AP
    ANGELS' PLACE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $758k · revenue +76%
  • MC
    MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME
    3× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $10k
  • NF
    NCMC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • CC
    CROHNS COLITIS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Childrens Cancer Therapy Development Institute

To make all childhood cancers universally survivable by delivering new treatments to clinical trials through scientific discovery.

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2
Gastro Intestinal Research Foundation Inc

The GI Research Foundation works to treat, prevent, and cure digestive diseases. In collaboration with the physicians and scientists at the University of Chicago Digestive Diseases Center, we fund innovative clinical and laboratory…

Health
3
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Indiana-Michiana Inc

The mission of ronald mcdonald house charities of indiana - michiana is to provide a "home-away-from-home" for families of seriously ill children.

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4
The Mandeko Foundation

The foundation is organized to foster, promote, support, develop, and maintain the broad, charitable, educational or religious purpose or functions as authorized by the charter of the jewish federation of metropolitan chicago and the…

Human Services
5
Michael Henter Foundation

The michael henter foundation is dedicated to raising awareness of aortic disease and marfan syndrome. our missions is to be a catalyst for positive change, supporting and empowering individuals affected by these conditions. since our…

Health
6
Children's Hospital & Medical Center Foundation

Children's nebraska foundation (the foundation) was created in 1981 to raise awareness and manage and distribute funds to support children's hospital & medical center's (the hospital) premier pediatric services and programs. as an advocate…

Health
7
The Chicago Home for Incurables

The primary purpose of the chicago home for incurables, ("the home"), is to provide financial support to the university of chicago for the operation of patient care facilities and funding of research of incurable diseases at the university…

Health
8
Sunset Legacy Foundation

None

Human Services
9
Lutheran Homes of Michigan Foundation

Motivated by christ's love, we engage people as they experience and embrace their god-given potential.

Housing & Shelter
10
Miracle House Foundation

To help individuals who may otherwise not be able to meet the level of care necessary for them to achieve long-term sobriety.

Unclassified
11
Island Hospital Foundation

The mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.

Unclassified
12
Nmdp Foundation

Raises funds to support the national marrow donor program (nmdp) mission: we save lives through cellular therapy.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little City Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Michael Sadler Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,311,180 · InternationalFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USAANGELS' PLACE: $758,000 · Human ServicesANGELS' PLACEMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $300,000 · Human ServicesMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME+1 more: $31,400 · Human ServicesDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300,000 · OtherDIGESTIVE HEA…THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $29,750 · OtherTHE MANNA FOO…+4 more: $17,500 · OtherTHE IZZO LEGACY: $90,000 · Food & NutritionBEACH KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementMichael Sadler Foundation: $17,500 · Education
International$1,311,180Human Services$1,089,400Other$347,250Food & Nutrition$90,000Community Improvement$50,000Education$17,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA: $1,311,180 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetANGELS' PLACE: $758,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME: $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetTHE IZZO LEGACY: $90,000 over 5y, 5.5% of budgetBEACH KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 36% of budgetLITTLE CITY FOUNDATION: $31,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT: $29,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMichael Sadler Foundation: $17,500 over 3y, 12% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA ↗
  • Who funds ANGELS' PLACE ↗
  • Who funds MARKLUND CHILDRENS HOME ↗
  • Who funds DIGESTIVE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE IZZO LEGACY ↗
  • Who funds BEACH KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LITTLE CITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT INC DBA - THE MANNA FOOD PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Michael Sadler Foundation ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Duffey Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Duffey Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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